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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide
  3. Introduction
  4. About Backup, Archive, and Restore
  5. About backups

About backups

A backup copies the selected items to the destination drive and leaves the original files on the source drive.

When you start a backup operation, the client software on your computer sends the data to be backed up to the NetBackup server. The server then writes the data to a storage device.

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